The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-23
Local and State Notes.


Summer tourist tickets will be placed on sale
June !.
NJ Doherty, commercial agent of the Wabash
at St. Louis, spent yesterday in the city.
The Wabash (Westernl road in the second
week of May earned $97.l36 more than il the
corresponding week of 1886.
The Lafayette car works are running day and
night and on Sundays to complete large con-
tract within specified time.
NJ r. Maxwell. who has been appointed agent
of the Lake Erie & Western at indianapolis, was
in the city yesterday. He takes hold June l.
There were transferred over the Belt road last
week 8, 291 cars against Z, 1872 in the correspond
ing week of 1856 Belt road engines last week
handled 706 carloads of live stock.
It is proposed to change the gauge of the To-
ledo ST. Louis & Kansas City between Toledo
and Frankfort, Ind, to standard gauge on JuEe
5, and the western end of the line in September
Miss Estelle B. Scott, daughter of Col Horace
Scott. will oe married to Harry Fisher, son of
w. F. Fisher, the veteran passenger conductor
the Lake Shore road, on the It'll of next
month.
On one of the trunk lines rs per cent. of the
freight cars have a carrying capacity of 40, 900,
yet the average load they carried last year was
less than 20, 600 pounds. because much of the
freight is light and bulky.
The average daily output of the Alum Cave
coal mine is increasing SO rapidly the Evansville
& Terre Haute company will put a train daily
from the coal mines. Heretofore a train every
other day has done the work.
The Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company
with a good deal of display on SATURDAY. opened
for business the Park Land extension, running
southwest from Louisville. Col. Bennett Young
is at the head of this enterprise.
The c., l., ST. L. & c. is distributing ten
miles of steel rails west of Adams. The fifty-six-
pound steel aiken up is to be laid on the Mar
t;hsvile division in place of the iron rail, which
has been down for many years.
The project of extending the Louisville, Evans
Vile g. ST. Louis road from Mt. Vernon to St
I,0riS ia defnita he ack a0n la
& Southeastern company also considering
the extending of their road to the same point
K. II. Wade, of the Wabash and his subordinate
officers. last week inspected the property
fully with view of seeing what improvements
they would recommend the receiver to make
Bridges are now receiving the most attention.
Over the entire Pennsylvania system the old
stub switches being discarded and the splits
switch substituted. The company west Of Pitts
burg is doing great deal this seaso in the way
of putting in new switches and new frogs of inn
proved pattern.
East bound passenger traffic of the Decline
out of Cincinnati has increased so largely that
to-day a second sleeping coach will be attached
to the night train This train makes the run
from Cincinnati to New York in twenty four
hours and twenty minutes.
Several town-meetings have been held in
Terre Haute to talk the proposed South
western road, and it has all ended in talk. Now
Messrs. McKeen, Collett. and a number of other
prominent citizens have taken hold of the enter
prise and the road will be built.
The L.. n A. & G. people announce the compile
tion of their Orleans, West Baden g. French
Lick Springs branch. and through tickets are
now on sale at all points where L., N. A. 81 G.
tickets sold Trains are to be run at hours
which will make good connections
The Rushville, the Columbus and the North
Vernon roads by themselves would be poor in
vestments. it is stated, but as feeders to the c..
l., St l.. & c. they are proving paying enter
prises, and the future promises even better
things for the owners of the property.
The tax payers of Columbus, Ind, on the 9TH
of next month, vote on the question of paying a
su bsidy in aid of the proposed road west from
that point. One of the conditions upon which
the subsidy is to be paid is that the road shall
be com leted and trains running into st. Louis
in 1888.
The day before NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the
C.. l., St. L. & G.. left Tor Europe, he purchased
], 200 shares of the c.. L, St L. & c. and placed
credits the report that he has been quietly
loading his holding of the stock, and was pre-
pairing TO so out of ralroading.
Passenger conductors say that the increase in
comes from the better rates the travel
is paying. They see but very few of the per-
sons who used TO travel on passes. and this is
evidence that the cutting off of passes has but
little to do with the increase in earnings. There
are no halfrate or special tickets, and COM
pa-atively speaking, but few mileage tickets
offered.
The Bee line people are making slow Roadway
in their efforts to nip some of the differential
rates. At St. Louis the roads voted against a
and at Cincinnati they are not
meeting with much encouragement in their ef-
forts to rearbitrate the n. Y, p. & O. differ
entail passenger rate. The N. Y, p g. o. is not
in the Central Traffic Association. and this body
has no power to whip the n Y, p & O. into
line.
Col. Horace Scott leaves this morning for the
South 80 look after railroad enterprise in which
he and q number of other Northern mon are
interested. They propose to build a road from
Trenton, on the Mobile & Ohio road. through
Milan the junction point of the Louisville q
Nashville and the Illinois Central. thence south
westerly to Florence and Sheffield. Ala. there
with the Sheffield 81 Birmingham
road.
The Pennsylvania and the Bee-line will sell
round-trip tickets from all their stations to ST.
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